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The thing is you can copy and paste code snippets properly and responsibly and try and learn at the same time. Or you can just patch over something and hope it works (a lot of the time it will).

My first job was doing Perl, after studying Java. The Perl cookbook was a godsend, and basically encouraged copy pasting BUT had a discussion on the different methods presented and advantages of each one. I personally found that a very good way to learn.

This is one thing I find nice in the Perl community. I haven't used Perl for a few years now, but I always found PeelMonks a lot better then Stack Overflow, because it encourages the discussions that Stack Overflow discourages. Essentially it encourages the bad type of copy pasting I have described.



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